This description would equally well describe Pirate Party activists. I think this is because Pirates and Occupiers are the same sorts of people. As an example of this, if you look at the ideas on Pirate Party UK’s open policy consultation, a lot of them are things that Occupiers would agree with.

We [Pirates] are a lifestyle party for the entire younger generation, starting somewhere at 35-40 years of age. This lifestyle — digital natives, as some have called it, or the connected generation which I prefer — is being actively condemned and demonized by the old parties. […] we are not primarily a five-percent party for technical people, but closer to a twenty-percent party for a connected generation, including the technical people.

So, there are large numbers of mainly young people totally disenchanted with the current political and economic system, and wanting change. Will anything come out of this? I don’t know. I do know that if you’d asked be a year ago whether it was possible that Gaddafi could be overthrown by a spontaneous revolution of his own people, I would have said it was impossible. But it happened. In Western countries such as the USA or Britain, how much easier must it be for us to force through real change, given that these countries are half-democratic already?

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“Gaddafi could be overthrown by a spontaneous revolution of his own people” He wasn’t it was a C.I.A. hired group of afghan guerillas/mercenaries posing as libyan revolutionaries and it’s poor journalism that doesn’t point these things out to the public, shame on you!